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Romanticism and the Gothic : genre, reception, and canon formation /

"Michael Gamer offers a sharply focused analysis of how and why romantic writers drew on gothic conventions whilst, at the same time, denying their influence in order to claim critical respectability. He shows how the reception of gothic writing, including its institutional and commercial recog...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Gamer, Michael
Format: Government Document Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Series:Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 40.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Romanticism's "pageantry of fear"
  • Gothic, reception, and production
  • Gothic and its contexts
  • "Gross and violent stimulants": producing Lyrical ballads 1798 and 1800
  • National supernaturalism: Joanna Baillie, Germany, and the gothic drama
  • "To foist thy stale romance": Scott, antiquarianism, and authorship.